Patents by Inventor Theodore B. Van Belle

Theodore B. Van Belle has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • CLASSIFYING LOCATIONS FOR AD PRESENTATION
    Publication number: 20140249923
    Abstract: This specification describes technologies relating to content presentation. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving data from a plurality of users within a geographic region associated with a location; analyzing the received data to derive a category for the location; annotating the location with the category; and using the category to boost candidate content items for delivery to users in the location in response to future content item requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Zhou, Anshul Kothari, Subhadip Sarkar, Theodore B. Van Belle, Surojit Chatterjee
  • Classifying locations for ad presentation
    Patent number: 8666802
    Abstract: This specification describes technologies relating to content presentation. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving data from a plurality of users within a geographic region associated with a location; analyzing the received data to derive a category for the location; annotating the location with the category; and using the category to boost candidate content items for delivery to users in the location in response to future content item requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Zhou, Anshul Kothari, Subhadip Sarkar, Theodore B. Van Belle, Surojit Chatterjee
  • CLASSIFYING LOCATIONS FOR AD PRESENTATION
    Publication number: 20110289090
    Abstract: This specification describes technologies relating to content presentation. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving data from a plurality of users within a geographic region associated with a location; analyzing the received data to derive a category for the location; annotating the location with the category; and using the category to boost candidate content items for delivery to users in the location in response to future content item requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Jian Zhou, Anshul Kothari, Subhadip Sarkar, Theodore B. Van Belle, Surojit Chatterjee
  • DOCUMENT PROCESSING FOR MOBILE DEVICES
    Publication number: 20080244381
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that generates a table of contents for association with an electronic document that is requested by a client device. The subject matter also can be embodied in a method that reduces the emphasis of boilerplate in a requested electronic document and a method that manipulates log-in information so that the information is more easily accessible to a user of a client device displaying the requested electronic document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Alex Nicolaou, Theodore B. Van Belle, Michael F. Lueck, Kuan-Loong Yong, Scott Jenson